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Image of land crabs

Image of land crabs

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Figure 2.(CF) Carapace front; (O) orbit; (IOM) mesial lobe of infraorbital margin; (x) widest width of CF; (z) mesial end of suborbital crista; (x–y) width of IOM at point of contact with CF; (y–z) shortest distance between CF and mesial end of suborbital crista; A, B Atlantic Gecarcinus lateralis (Freminville 1835), male, carapace width (CW) 31 mm, Costa Rica, Puerto Viejo C Gecarcinus nobilii sp. n., holotype, male, CW 31 mm, Ecuador, Punta Galera (LACM CR 1968-477). First male gonopod: Gecarcinus nobilii sp. n., holotype: D mesial view E lateral view F Pacific Gecarcinus lateralis (sensu Türkay 1973), CW 31 mm, Costa Rica, Hermosa Beach, lateral view; Scale bar = 5 mm.

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Robert Perger, Adam Wall
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Perger R, Wall A (2014) The description of a new species of the Neotropical land crab genus Gecarcinus Leach, 1814 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Gecarcinidae) ZooKeys 435: 93–109
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zookeys.435.7271.sp_1_p_1